The Senior Citizens Party-list has endorsed Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna citing her important role during the pandemic as health cluster head, the provision of free healthcare, monthly financial assistance and jobs, and ensuring friendly facilities all for the benefit of senior citizens.
Lacuna, who is also turning senior on May 6, thanked Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes for the endorsement, with an assurance that her administration will continue the existing benefits of the elderly and even enhance them in the years to come.
In endorsing Lacuna, Rep. Ordanes that the lady mayor’s performance results, especially for senior citizens, “are an example for all mayors to emulate.”
The congressman also cited Lacuna for her “sterling track record of championing elderly rights and welfare.”
He said that because of Mayor Lacuna, Manila’s senior citizens will now get in stipend and allowance a total of P24,000 every year, with P12,000 coming from Manila city government and the oher P12,000 from DSWD.
According to Ordanes, it was Lacuna, in her capacity as a doctor who actually understands the needs of seniors and families, who modernized Manila’s local public health system “in ways no other mayor before her has achieved.”